...to put it bluntly.

Let me put this bluntly.

To put it that bluntly

I don't enjoy putting it this bluntly.

Forgive my speaking so bluntly, but it is the truth.

To put it bluntly Neuer cheated, and then boasted about it.

I am leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly.

I believe the colonel has a point, even though he makes it rather bluntly.

To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

And to put it really bluntly, you know, people are willing to pay for stuff that has value, right?

To put it more bluntly or perhaps a little less believably, i don't think this airplane is really here.

While accepting a reporter's interview, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek bluntly said that the Chinese culture has made a lot of contributions to the world.

He also lamented the fact that some vendors bluntly rejected the exemption cards while others, such as cable or telephone companies, refused to process reimbursement claims.

We must be clear on this and state, quite bluntly, that all acts that aim to kill or seriously injure civilians or non combatants are acts of terrorism.

I have to say quite bluntly that the United Kingdom does not believe this is the best way of making progress towards the goal we all share, either substantively or procedurally.

To put it bluntly, we needed such a law because North Korea continues to dispatch armed agents to the Republic of Korea, as evidenced by the North Korean submarine infiltration incident last September.

And so it turned out. Rather than deflating the economy, Nixon took America off the gold standard in 1971 and imposed wage, price, and import controls, proclaiming bluntly, I am now a Keynesian in economics.

Ambassador Parrilla invoked the privileges and immunities he enjoys in conformity with the existing international legal regime on said privileges and immunities and bluntly refused to put himself through such humiliating, selective and discriminatory procedures.

Now that position has been bluntly and uncompromisingly expressed. The demand for far reaching change in the structure and functioning of the EU, including repatriation of powers to Britain, is a major new demarche at a difficult time for Europe.

That may not be surprising, given the violence and turmoil elsewhere in the region. But, since Iran s new president, Hassan Rouhani, took office at the beginning of August, the West, to put it bluntly, has not demonstrated sufficient will to explore possible openings.

The Secretary General, Kofi Annan, addressed the problem quite bluntly in a statement to the Security Council in 1999, when he said We are at the end of a century that has seen the creation and refinement of much of the corpus of international law.

In fact, these talks constitute the longest and most futile negotiating process between any two countries in modern history. During a 2010 visit to New Delhi, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao stated bluntly that sorting out the border disputes will take a fairly long period of time.

To put it bluntly, Russia is no longer in the same category as China. Whereas the Middle Kingdom is proudly regaining its former global status after centuries of decline, Russia is defiantly trying to resurrect its former imperial status, but in a manner that appears doomed to fail.

In part, the criticism of Varoufakis reflects less the substance of his proposals than the manner in which he approached his interlocutors. Eschewing the traditional duality of frank private discussions and restrained public commentary, he aggressively advocated his case openly and bluntly, and did so in an increasingly personal manner.

Former US Vice President Al Gore s climate adviser, Jim Hansen, put it bluntly Suggesting that renewables will let us phase rapidly off fossil fuels in the United States, China, India, or the world as a whole is almost the equivalent of believing in the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.

The US auto industry is up in arms. And, a few days ago, Jens Weidmann, the president of the Bundesbank, publicly warned that the world risks a harmful and ultimately futile round of competitive exchange rate depreciations or, more bluntly, a currency war (a term used previously by Brazil to express similar concerns).

NEW DELHI As US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton bluntly told Pakistan in 2011 that you can t keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. But her warning ( eventually those snakes are going to turn on their keeper), like those of other American officials over the years, including presidents and CIA chiefs, went unheeded.

Ask this question If a humongous financial institution gets into trouble, is this a big deal for economic growth, unemployment, and the like? Or, more bluntly, could Citigroup or a similar size European firm get into trouble and stumble again toward failure without attracting some form of government and central bank support (whether transparent or somewhat disguised)?

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talks bluntly about politics and diplomacy, making the case that women's issues deserve a place at the center of foreign policy. Far from being a soft issue, she says, women's issues are often the very hardest ones, dealing directly with life and death. A frank and funny Q A with Pat Mitchell from the Paley Center.

One reason is the continued division of the Korean Peninsula and the threat that a nuclear armed North Korea poses to its own people and its neighbors. China has added to regional tensions with a foreign policy including advancing territorial claims in the East and South China Seas that would be described diplomatically as assertive, and more bluntly as bullying.

Nearly ten years later, Japan is ready for strategic clarity. Shinzo Abe, the acting secretary general of Japan s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and a leading candidate to succeed Junichiro Koizumi as Japanese prime minister next year, put it bluntly it would be wrong for Japan to send a signal to China that the US and Japan will watch and tolerate a Chinese military invasion of Taiwan.

This discrepancy is at the heart of the question with which European policymakers are now grappling Should taxpayers in debtor countries expect solidarity or, more bluntly, money from taxpayers in creditor countries? Why should taxpayers in creditor countries have to take responsibility for financing the euro crisis, especially given that high private wealth GDP ratios may result from low tax revenues over time, while lower ratios may reflect higher tax revenues?

In a speech by the High Commissioner for Human Rights delivered on 27 August 2004 to the Biennial Conference of the International Commission of Jurists, Ms. Arbour underscored the importance of judicial review, stating, Put bluntly, the judiciary should not surrender its sober, long term, principled analysis of issues to a call by the executive for extraordinary measures grounded in information that cannot be shared, to achieve results that cannot be measured .